I looked at the website, but I don’t really get what this is about. Is anyone able to summarize what it means that it’s programmable, or how that sets it apart from other programs?
The brushes are editable to a degree that I have not seen in other apps. For this the authors have employed a node-based system which they call 'programable'. Not sure how valid that it, but it is certainly novel.
I’m not an expert in this field, but I don’t think I agree. The problem with a browser monopoly is that the monopolist does not have to obey specs — you can just do whatever you want, and force the specs to follow you.
If you fork that monopolist’s engine, you’re not making any immediate difference to the market. You’ll adopt all their existing behavior, whether or whether not it conforms to spec (and I would guess you would continue to pull in many of their changes down the road).
A brand new implementation is much more difficult, but if it works it’s much more meaningful in preventing a monopoly.
I found https://gizmo.party/ via your site, which I am also very much enjoying! Very fun use of vibe-coding, which I’ve been overall pretty resistant to.
Although I do wish it wasn’t such a black box — I wish the code for the gizmos could be examined, exported, or embedded elsewhere.
> The switch sees the IP, recognizes it's not part of your LAN (because you've set your network up as 192.168.168.0/24 and that IP's not part of that range) and forwards it to its gateway, the router.
This may be nitpicky, but assuming we’re talking about a switch in the strictest definition (a layer 2 switch), this is not correct. Your computer sees that the destination IP address is not in its local subnet, and addresses the packet to the MAC address of its default gateway (the router). The switch receives the packet and forwards it to the appropriate interface based on the destination MAC address.
Even if we are talking about a layer 3 switch, then we would be assuming that the gateway resides on the switch, and it is still the computer that makes the decision to send the packet to its default gateway.
Given the rest of your comment I’m assuming you already know this, and I’m not posting this as a correction to you, but rather for the benefit of others.
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